Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown's office detected an intrusion into the agency's website Feb. 4 that has kept business and elections databases offline for almost three weeks.

(Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian )

SALEM -- Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown said Monday that she will offer a grace period and waive fines for missed deadlines after a Feb. 4 website breach knocked offline the state's campaign finance and business registry databases.

ORESTAR, the campaign finance system, and the Central Business Registry

Brown's office sent emails Thursday to all 337,811 people who had ever created an account with one of the Secretary of State's system. The email also asked users to change their passwords to personal accounts if they used the same passwords on the elections and business databases. ORESTAR had 5,777 active users who had logged in within the past year, and the business registry had 58,780.